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Since the case against the holding company was so strong, wrote Messrs. Schwab & Grace, Bethlehem was about to transform itself into an operating company, absorb four subsidiaries, "as the initial steps in a consolidation program." Still outside the fold are some 60 other Bethlehem subsidiaries including the most important ones...
What the Railway Express Agency is to railroads, two rival companies have long been to airlines. Company No. 1 is Railway Express itself, with Pan American, United, twelve other airlines in its fold. Company No. 2 is General Air Express, a pool created by TWA, American, five other airlines, with pickups and deliveries handled by Postal Telegraph...
...Alexei Stakhanov, a skilled pneumatic drill operator in the Donbas Coal Trust sector, was discovered by the Soviet Press this year to be performing prodigies, soon was raised by Bolshevik puffs to the status of a "Hero of Labor." Russians read that Stakhanov increased his output of coal five-fold by "Stakhanovism." What he did was 'to organize a gang of three miners with such teamwork that Stakhanov, the skilled pneumatic driller, was able to spend all his time drilling out coal, while the others did the propping and panting. By this means the three got out enough coal...
...doing, but they also seem to be doing it from a purely personal viewpoint: the Press of Boston because the subject makes good copy; the Pastors of Cambridge because they perhaps think that now is an excellent time to steer a few of the wayward flock into the fold. But I think it is time for the undergraduate body to rise in righteous wrath at the suggestions concerning curbs to be placed upon their personal freedoms...
Last week's meeting at the Coffee House was to try to entice the bolters back into the fold, to stiffen the backbone of the boycotters. None of those who resigned returned. There was a great buzz-buzz-buzz of angry oratory in which the museums were roundly denounced as rackets. About midnight, with the aid of words and whiskey, the Society members had worked themselves up to such a pitch that they were ready to cripple every art show in the land to win their rental crusade...